Hello Virtual Visitor, It’s my privilege to announce the release of our new Online Collections. From the ordinary to the extraordinary, we’re providing access to almost every photographed object in […]
epiCENTER: Explore the CENTER of it all with our staff!
Enjoy the observations and interests of the people who work at the Center of the West here in our staff blog. Just note that these are the personal perspectives of individual staff members, and are not meant to be official representations of Center expertise or policy.
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Beantown
In Last of the Great Scouts, a biography of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody penned by his sister Helen Cody Wetmore, she writes about Buffalo Bill’s Wild West’s visit to […]
Cody Adventures, Part I – Perks of working for a museum
At 56 years old, I’m new—new to blogging, new to the not-for-profit world, and new to Wyoming. Loving the last two, but the jury is out on the first one. […]
Bill Nye’s Cowboy Scourge, 1887
Popular humorist Bill Nye (1850 – 1896), who also founded the Daily Boomerang in Laramie, Wyoming, worried about Buffalo Bill’s sway over youth. Writing in the New York World October […]
A Sense of Place: Laura Bell’s “Claiming Ground”
I just finished reading a book, Claiming Ground by Laura Bell. Sometimes I manage to string a few words together in a pretty way, and I feel smug with myself, […]
Museum Interpretation: What does it all mean?
We here at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West have our work cut out for us. With a subject as broad as the American West, we understand that you […]